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The classics heavily influenced many aspects of European modern culture, yet it is not easy to trace their intellectual power on any author. Gloria Vivenza takes on the impressive task of examining how philosophy, history, literature, politics, ethics all played a part in shaping Adam Smith¿s thought as a scholar, philosopher and economist.

This book defines the relationship between the thought of Adam Smith and that of the ancients--Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and the Stoics. Vivenza offers a complete survey of Smith's writings to illustrate how classical arguments shaped opinions and scholarship in the eighteenth century.